Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de
plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations,
collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day.
Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics
and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French
novel, Amitie et devouement, ou Trois mois a la Louisiane, or
Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a
moralizing, educational travelogue meant for a young adult
readership of the time. Lebrun's novel is one of the few
perspectives we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman
writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and
white supremacy in France's former Louisiana colony. E. Joe Johnson
and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a
translation, an accessible introduction, extensive endnote
annotations, and period illustrations. After a short preface meant
to educate young readers about the geography, culture, and history
of the southern reaches of the Louisiana Purchase, the novel tells
the tale of two teenaged, orphaned Americans, Hortense Melvil and
Valentine Arnold. The two young women, who characterize one another
as "sisters," have spent the majority of their lives in a Parisian
boarding school and return to Louisiana to begin their adult lives.
Almost immediately upon arrival in New Orleans, their close
friendship faces existential threats: grave illness in the form of
yellow fever, the prospect of marriage separating the two, and
powerful discrimination in the form of racial prejudice and
segregation.
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